Much Unfocused Disjointed Rambling Here

Once again, the media has missed why getting this 2nd amendment thing in line with the standard model is so damned important.

I don't think they realize just how close the US is to a second revolution, or should that be third?

The people who believe in the 2nd amendment are folks who believe in changing things with soap boxes, ballot boxes and cartridge boxes. In that order.

I think the soap box has been dead for quite some time. It might be coming back since control of publishing on the internet is controlled by so very many voices. The soap box was controlled by an amazingly small group of people running television, radio and the printed press. The internet publishes how many different points of view?

The ballot box is teetering on the edge. A gigantic segment of the population is not being given a candidate that represents how they feel in any meaningful way. For example, McCain is very much a Democrat, if he ran in 1980. But since it's 2008, he passes as a republican? I don't think so. By the same light, Obama is not a Democrat by 1980 standards either. In 1980 we'd have called him a commie. If you are conservative, libertarian or Kennedy style Democrat; who do you vote for? FDR and LBJ Democrats can vote McCain and the Socialist Liberals can vote Obama.

I weep because I stood post in WEST Germany in 1988. I was there to prevent the Communists from invading Western Europe. Turns out we should have been paying less attention to the "enemies foreign" and more attention to the "or domestic" portion of our service oaths. Socialism and it's cousin, Communism, killed on the order of 350 million people in the 20th century. And they are actually worried about the 30k per year that are killed by a firearm in the USA? That's 3,000,000 per century (about 55% are suicides). Hitler got five times that in six years, not counting combat deaths from WW2. Stalin got 51 million in just 12 years, again not counting combat deaths from WW2. Mau snuffed out between 40 and 75 million between 1949 and 1975, and an additional 9.5 mil were killed in the revolution that brought him to power. Pol Pot got half of a century's worth of the US gun death rate in JUST THREE YEARS! Just counting the big guys gives a rate of 2.9 million a year for the 46 years these SOCIALISTS were in charge.

How many of his own people did the hated Reagan murder? Eisenhower? Nixon? Ford? Either Bush? For that matter, FDR, JFK, LBJ, Carter, or Clinton? I posit that it were the guns that saved us.

I don't want a choice between a quick or a slow death. I want to live!

There are too many people who've noticed that nobody represents their point of view and who have stopped voting. Talk about a self fulfilling prophecy! If you don't vote, you definitely won't get a voice.

There's a bit of a problem though. To get the damn Republicans to try something that will represent me, I have to vote for a Democrat. (Or vice versa, but the Republicans are closer to where I am.)

The parties seem to have figured out that if one side runs one that the other considers a disaster the other side will come out in droves. Terry Branstad didn't win all those elections because he was popular, or even a great governor, he won because no matter how bad he was, the Democratic Party of Iowa would find someone who appeared far worse. I feel the same way in the upcoming presidential election. No matter how bad I think McCain is (In 1999 I liked him better, but I knew him less) Obama will be far worse.

He's just about everything I don't like about The Democratic Party in one giant ball. He's got the Carter economic smarts. He's got the Clinton turn on a dime to follow the poll. He's got the racist entitlement thing down pat.

Health care is not going to be fixed by handing out coverage paid by taxation. Try to remember that many of the costs in medicine are caused by the ever increasing amount of do-gooder laws.

Gas is not going to be cheaper by taxing the oil companies more. When has increasing expenses ever caused a product to get cheaper?

And full circle, banning guns will not make crime go away. Crime predates the invention of guns! People were murdered with knives for millennia before the invention of gun powder.

Banning guns, increasing taxes to pay for health care for people who aren't working themselves or paying taxes, and making it too expensive for us to get to work will cause a change. Atlas might just shrug.

The conservative position is over represented in the military; should a real revolution come it might just start with a Colonel. The people who think that the Mexicans should all go home, that you should work for a living, that we should stop exporting all our tech jobs to India and all our manufacturing jobs to China also tend to own all the guns.

This could be a very short revolution.

Or there could be no revolution at all. But a particular political party has got to stop pushing us against the wall. What's going to happen when we discover we have nothing to lose by attempting to shoot the bastards?